I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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